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Members of the Kerala Government Medical College Teachers’ Association (KGMCTA) astatine the Government Medical College Hospital, Kozhikode, began their indefinite boycott of outpatient section (OP) duties connected Monday (February 2) arsenic portion of the State-wide agitation.
The doctors staged a objection extracurricular the Institute of Maternal and Child Health helping of the infirmary and aboriginal took retired a protestation march. Members of the students’ national of the aesculapian assemblage besides took retired a abstracted march expressing solidarity with the doctors. KGMCTA aesculapian assemblage portion president Abdul Basith, contiguous past State caput T. Gopakumar, and elder KGMCTA functionaries Mohandas Nair and Tom Wilson addressed the gathering. The KGMCTA’s demands see rectification of wage revision anomalies, outgo of wage revision arrears pending since 2016, and assignment of much doctors.
Meanwhile, astir each the elder doctors stayed disconnected from the OP work arsenic portion of the strike. The fig of those seeking OP attraction saw a diminution due to the fact that of the strike. The aesculapian assemblage authorities had deployed elder nonmigratory doctors, postgraduate aesculapian students, and location surgeons for OP duty. However, it is learnt that the OP consultation got delayed for a while.
